July 20, 2021

Recognizing Special Interests Alongside a Unifying Common Good: Justice and Equal Opportunity

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  The One of the Many:  America’s Struggle for the Common Good  by Martin E. Marty   This book, written by Martin Marty, was published 23 ye...

The Absence of A Proper Sense of Humility and Common Understanding in U.S.-Russian Relations

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  The November-December 2001 issue of Foreign Affairs followed the 9/11 attack on the United States by only a couple of months.  How differe...
May 25, 2021

Is Reconciliation Possible? Ending the Conflict and Carnage in Israel and Palestine. My Hope Endures!

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    Reaping the Rewards of Mutual Respect and Empathy in Pursuit of a Compelling Goal   We read story after story, decade after decade, and,...
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May 10, 2021

A Dramatic Example of the Role of Contingency and the Individual in History

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  I just finished reading one of the most galvanizing and analytically insightful books I can recall recently reading called  Hitler’s 30 Da...
May 3, 2021

Creating and Sustaining a Winning, Successful Organization—Its Relevance to Procter & Gamble (Or any Great Organization)

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  Yuval Levin’s book,  A Time to Build:  From Family and Community to Congress and a Campus, How Recommitting to our Institutions Can Revive...
April 20, 2021

George Saunders' "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain"-A Landmark Tutorial on Writing

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  I found this a humbling and mind-opening book.   I left it realizing even more that I should have spent more time editing everything I hav...

Congressman John Lewis: An Icon of Courage, Persistence and Faith

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  Jon Meacham’s biography of John Lewis is a wonderful book.  It’s not, as Meacham himself said, a “full-blown biography”; it stops in its d...